And one of the regiments of the Iron Brigade is led by a brave and loyal son of eastern Virginia who has breathed the fire air of our western plains and whose hand will not be stayed whilst the old dominion is furrow by a single bondsman, or her soil pressed by the foot of a despot.The officers of the brigade, together with their invited guests, proceeded to that part of the grove where the tables had been prepared and which were spread with everything for a sumptuous feast one that would have done honor to any of our first class hotels.- Champagne and other wines flowed and all went merry as a “marriage-bell” the table was three hundred feet in length and lined on either side with a glittering array of officers of all grades dressed the the best.DEAR SIR:- Your very kind invitation of the 9th was received this morning.But say to them that my heart and prayers are ever with them and that although their new colors can witness no more brilliant acts of patriotism and devotion than those which the old torn flags have shared in; I know that on every future field they and the whole Army of the Potomac will maintain, on their part, the honor of their country and their colors. Call us during Museum hours at (717) 337-2035 Call and place a PHONE ORDER. Need Assistance? The Fall of Fort Sumter.
Price: US $2,200.00. The Iron Brigade was one of the most celebrated military organizations of the American Civil War. Col. Bragg made a very handsome and appropriate speech in which he gave a glowing history of the old “Iron Brigade” and its achievements and a just and merited tribute to its gallant dead. April 14, 2011. It devolves upon me to present to you this beautiful flag on whose folds is inscribed our country’s motto, “E Pluribus Unum.”But the Iron Brigade requires no praise from me. Shall she have it? The answer is in your hands.E Pluribus Unum and the Union forever.If laurels have been won by any of the regiments of the brigade since its organization they have been won by the assistance of the others; and we feel a deep interest and are peculiarly sensitive in regard to praise or censure bestowed.I thank you for the invitation which I would gladly accept did other duties permit. Therefore let us love and cherish the Iron Brigade.As to that sweet love feast that these prophets held as was to be so rudely and unconstitutionally interrupted, we were never much alarmed about; we knew their hatred could be no greater against the North, we know that nineteen twentieths of the slaveholders were rank traitors and we are satisfied that there are more loyal Union people in the seceded States today than on the day the first rebel gun was fired at Fort Sumter and we further know should any loyal citizen lose slaves through the operation of this order he would have the same claim against our government that he or any other loyal citizen may have, North or South, for the loss of a horse or other property used or destroyed by the orders of the government.Plant there the standard which she placed in your hands at the nation’s birth. RARE 1860s CDV Civil War Battle Flag of the IRON BRIGADE by Alexander Gardner. It is our means of defense and offense. The Iron Brigade flag itself was made of the finest blue silk, bordered with a deep gold fringe. A. W. Randall, who intended to be present and present it, was presented by W. Y. Selleck, Esq. Our priority is the health and safety of each of us.Your courage and valor have been shown on the battlefields of Gainesville, Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh’s Crossing, Chancellorsville, and last but not least the Glorious battle of Gettysburg where your noble corps commander fell, the brave and gallant Gen. Reynolds.You then numbered in each regiment a thousand or more.Let it not be recorded by the future historian that in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century the United States of America, one of the most powerful of the nations with the best Government ever organized, a model for the world, a country most rich, beautiful and salubrious, the hope and asylum of the oppressed of all nations, in the height of prosperity while every branch of industry was thriving beyond precedent and every channel of commerce was flowing with untold wealth the government was shocked by a revolt in a certain portion of its territory where the system of Negro slavery, a relict of the barbarous ages existed authorized and sustained by the local laws instigated by a few unprincipled, ambitious politicians, men who had been pampered by the government until they had become so arrogant as to claim as a right all the principal places of trust in the gift of the people, and who had become so pregnated with aristocratic notions through the influences of their domestic system as to become disgusted with democratic institutions and had, by insidious arguments, for a long time been poisoning the minds of the people until excited to madness they rose in armed revolt.At the first battle Fredericksburg in December last, the Twenty-fourth was with us the first time in a fight.